In the family, fathers often forbid their sons wearing long hair. A boy solved the problem in a radical way. He cut his long hair, bor- rowed money from his mother and with her permission bought a girl's wig, which he now puts on every night going to the club together with his girl friends.

How to meet the phenomenon and the problems!

The young men who participate in this movement are not transves- tites (at any rate not generally), but it is more probable that we may later on find more TVs among the men in this movement than in other groups of young men. The movement is a sort of victory for the femi- nism (which is not the same as femininity). The movement is destroy- ing old barriers. The old view on feminine and masculine attire is get- ting a deathblow. We have to look at and accept our friends as human beings, and not at once differentiate them into shes and hes.

From an aesthetic point of view it has to be admitted that it is sel- dom a beautiful sight to see these long haired boys and young men. The mixture of feminine and masculine features seldom makes a good combination and often we see a coarse, vulgar, inharmonious indi- vidual. It is a pity for the movement. We are already able to distinguish between two types of long haired boys. The vulgar boys with long un- cared for hair and rather masculine clothes with sailor's or cowboy's trousers, and the nice boys with long well trimmed hair, either bobbed or curled and with permanent waves, dressed in smooth well-fitting clothes in a perhaps somewhat old-fashioned style, with trousers in the same cut and material as the girls' slacks and with a little shoulder- bag. Hitherto it has been the somewhat masculine style within the girl's fashions that has been adopted. But if the movement goes on we shall perhaps see that more feminine styles will be adopted also. First maybe, real stretch nylon slacks with straps under the feet and with a zip fastener at the side and later on the scotch kilt, followed up by long nylons and garterbelt. At this point it will not be long 'til the adoption of still more hitherto feminine clothes such as skirts, blouses, (cardi- gans we have adopted long ago), dresses and more dainty shoes.

As the matter stands today, it is a little difficult to see that the boys just now want to express some inner feminine thought or urge. But a still dormant need for femme personation will to all appearance have good possibilities to develop and in time open their eyes for the femi- nine innerself, and they shall see that femininity and masculinity are two sides of the same thing, namely the complete human life.

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